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The film follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient of a psychiatric asylum for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. Adam was a comedian in Berlin prior to the Second World War, during which he was sent to a concentration camp. He manages to survive the war only because his pre-war act was recalled by an SS officer, who then takes Adam as his "pet". The officer insists that he'd act like a dog, something he did during one of his sketches. With time, Adam starts having the delusion he is actually a dog.
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Cast:
Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Cristian Motiu -
Original Title:
Adam Resurrected -
Country:
United States of America, Israel, Germany -
Year:
2008 - 106' Subtitles: Portuguese
Director
Paul Schrader
Paul Schrader was born on July 22, 1946, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Born and raised in an ultra-puritan community of local Dutch Calvinists, he didn’t have access to the world of cinema until entering college, whence he was forbidden to watch movies by his parents. He entered the university to study theology, but later decided to switch to cinemhe started working as a film critic and, at the same time, studying Film Theory. In 1972, he wrote the celebrated book Transcendental Style In Film: Ozu, Dreyer Bresson and began writingscreenplays.
After the success, in 1976, of the screenplay for Taxi Driver, Schrader started directing his own films. His most recent feature films First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021) and Master Gardener (2022) have been described by Schrader as parts of a modern trilogy.
After the success, in 1976, of the screenplay for Taxi Driver, Schrader started directing his own films. His most recent feature films First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021) and Master Gardener (2022) have been described by Schrader as parts of a modern trilogy.
